The Biden administration will take further action against Huawei Technologies if necessary, according to US Commerce chief.
On Thursday, United States Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said that the Biden administration will take further action against Huawei Technologies if necessary after some Republican lawmakers have pressed for more steps.
In a report on Reuters, Washington said that Huawei Technologies was a “national security threat” on a variety of grounds and also aggressively lobbied other countries not to use Huawei equipment in next-generation 5G networks.
Washington, citing Huawei Technologies’ ties to the Chinese government and military, said that this made the company susceptible to “Chinese governmental pressure to participate in espionage”.
The US Commerce chief was asked about Huawei Technologies in a Reuters interview and recounted how she told Republican lawmakers last January that she “wouldn’t be soft and now the proof’s in the pudding — we haven’t been. They shouldn’t worry.”
Former President Donald Trump’s administration added Huawei Technologies to the US Entity List last May 2019.
According to Raimondo, the list was “a really powerful tool in our toolbox” and they will use it to the fullest extent possible in order to protect American national security.
Based on a report, Huawei Technologies declined to comment on Raimondo’s remarks on the matter.
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It was last November 2020 when Huawei Technologies said that the company was selling its budget brand smartphone unit, Honor Device Co, to a consortium of more than 30 agents and dealers.
A group of 14 Republican lawmakers in the US House of Representatives asked the Commerce Department last month to add Honor to the US Entity List. The Republican lawmakers also said that Honor was spun off “to evade U.S. export control policies”.
Raimondo also noted that the Commerce Department has continued to add other companies to the US Entity List.
Last June, 5 additional Chinese companies were added to the US Entity List after the department said that they’re involved with the forced labor of Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang.
“We’re continuing to work on our export controls,” said Raimondo.
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